Dr. Steven M. Southwick has given us his kind permission to share his presentation Logotherapy’s Use of Resilience in the Healing Process. This presentation was given at the Second Future of Logotherapy Conference in Vienna on May 17, 2014.

Steven M. Southwick received an MD in Psychiatry from George Washington Medical School in 1980. He completed his psychiatry residency at Yale University School of Medicine. He is a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Yale University Medical School and Yale Child Study Center. In addition, he serves as Deputy Director of the Clinical Neurosciences Division of the Department of Veterans Affairs National Center for PTSD, and is Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry at Mount Sinai School of Medicine. His interests include the phenomenology and neurobiology of posttraumatic stress disorder and resilience, memory for traumatic events, and the longitudinal course of trauma-related psychopathology.

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Logotherapy and existential analysis (LTEA) is the comprehensive psychological theory and therapy of Dr. Viktor E. Frankl. It relies on the defiant power of the human spirit to discover meaning under any and all circumstances.